Sztejnberg Josef

Sztejnberg Josef received transit visa no. 1091 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 5 August 1940. The register records rabbi - mir yeshiva, aged 31.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

31

Occupation

Rabbi - Mir Yeshiva

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

wife Nachama (18)

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; registered in Kobe for USA.

Travelled with, and never given a number

• Nachama — wife, aged 18

The register recorded visa holders. It did not reliably record the wives and children who travelled on somebody else’s visa, so these people have no entry of their own and cannot be searched for. Where the archive has recovered a name, it is here.

Where this comes from

• List of Refugees, Vilna, 1940 — JDC Archives, New York, collection AR 33/44, file 00876. The contemporary register of Polish Jewish refugees in Lithuania, running to more than nine thousand numbered entries; the fullest independent check…
  7591; 1908; Mir
• The Kobe relatives list — refugees at Kobe in 1941 recorded with their relatives abroad. Seventy-six pages in numbered sheets (LIST No. 7, No. 16 and others), each line giving a name, age, birthplace, occupation and citizenship, and then…
  138; 33; Brzesc; yeshiva; uncle Bromberg 2107 S Avers Chicago, cousin Sztejnberg 1553 Marfoir Pl NY Bronx